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US Military Maintenance is a business that trains US veterans to start a commercial maintenance business and to succeed at doing so. It is a program of Patriotic Hearts, a 501c3 non-profit for US military, veterans and their families. The founder, Mark Baird, and the National Director, Ethan Perez will be talking about this program and sharing the details this Tuesday at 11 AM on Friends of Veterans radio.

US veterans from across America have already started their own US Military Maintenance businesses. If you are an entrepreneurial spirit, or a US veteran who is tired of looking for a job, listen in Tuesday at 11 AM. Both Mark and Ethan have built janitorial businesses from scratch and made hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

If you choose to join the USMM team, everything you need, apart from your equipment, license and insurance are provided.

The legendary “Horse Whisperer,” Monty Roberts, is running free, resilience-building workshops for veterans and their families. The three-day program involves working closely with horses. The individuals and horses develop a special bond built upon mutual trust and respect. Join-Up offers everyone an effective tool to rediscover themselves through the eyes of the horse. This self-awareness exercise deals effectively with emotional trauma, anti-social behavior and withdrawal, anger, stress, combat stress and even Post Traumatic Stress Injury (PTSI).

Roberts holds two Ph.D.s in Behavioral Sciences. In these workshops, he demonstrates the deeply healing power of establishing a trusting relationship with horses without the use of force. With his soft-spoken, nurturing style, Roberts assists veterans as they learn to cause a partnership with the horse. After three transformational days, veterans can better understand how to control their anger, confront painful memories, cope with real-life situations and move on with their lives and relationships. situations and move on with their lives and relationships.

We have been working with veterans suffering from PTSI, over the course of five separate recent clinics this year. The results are coming in, and the outcome is fantastic. We have people laughing and getting back to a normal life who have been afflicted with PTSI for upwards of 35 years.

All the way from Vietnam to Afghanistan, these injured warriors come home in a terrible state and need our help to reconnect with their communities. The horses are doing their work with incredible efficiency. Individuals are welcome to bring a spouse/significant other to attend the workshop with them. Contact admin@join-up.org.

Open mike discusing how to fix the behemouth called the VA. We need to identify all the problems, strengths, weaknesses, failures to start the discussioin that must be brutally honest. Fix the culture within and hold ALL accountable. Firing at best. proscetion if necessary. Nothing is sacred or off the table. If it isnt helping our vets, then change it, We are done with rhetoric and all the dead weight with no accountability. Reward excellence and pink slips to those who deserve it. Innovate always to the benefit of our vets - lets find a way to fix what we can, keep what works and make the VA work for us! Its our earned right.

Our Life Lessons from Veterans series continues with George Eldridge, currently serving in the U.S. Air Force. He shares his life lesson- "it's the reason why you do well and stay in military service that really matters."

This Can't Be Happening (TCBH) is a five time Project Censored award-winning online news writer collective.

From their web site: "Our goal is to give you the stories you aren’t getting from the corporate media, or to give you the stories you are getting from them, but from a different, and more honest, perspective."

Program Summary: March 3, 2015

1st Hour - a pre-recorded segment of TCBH radio from the Progressive Radio Network (PRN.fm) hosted by Dave Lindorff which airs every Wednesday 5pm (Eastern)

2nd Hour - RFK goes live with TCBH contributor John Grant. John Grant is a writer/photographer/filmmaker living just outside Philadelphia’s city limits. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and has published both fiction and non-fiction. Starting in the 1980s, he traveled to Central America and other places as a documentary photographer for publication and for exhibits of his own large prints. He shot and edited an 80-minute documentary film called "Second Time Around" about a seriously wounded Vietnam veteran who chose to live and work in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 35 years after his first tour there. John has been to Iraq twice during the war, once as an observer critical of the war and once as a cameraman on a documentary film.

In this broadcast I will tackle how the Veterans Administration screwed up job caused thousands of disabled veterans to miss out on va benefits for years. One group Government Accountability Office found in a 2008 report that many veterans were misdiagnosed for personality disorders due to a failure by doctors to follow required diagnostic procedures and guidelines. My Current VA Psychatrist Dr. Morales who has seen me for over 2 years even states that I should have been diaganosed with PTSD on the date of discharge. But Dr. Ballad who is in charge of all VA Psychatrist around Tampa Bay at VISIN 8 located in St. Petersburg, Florida. Dr. Ballad says that whatever my current VA Psychatrist says does not mean nothing. I like to hear your comments about PTSD and Personality Disorder and Bill HR 975 The Mental Health Review act which has been sitting in the Sub Committee for over 2 years.

Known to some associates as “Goddess of Light” because of the ever-present flash of her camera, she refuses to lose sight of history because she believes that where we started is germane to where we are going. Chris attributes her relevant experience to her seventeen years as a military spouse.

She founded a non-profit site to facilitate resource sharing and peer to peer support for military spouses, has spent years leveraging blogs and social media to promote veterans’ interests and most recently served as a special staff officer to a Marine commander in Okinawa, Japan where she was responsible for administering the unit’s web site and maintaining communication with over 700 personnel and their family members.

Today Chris is putting her experience with content management systems and social media to use for Bay Leaf Digital’s clients right here in the USA. Chris is a regular contributor to the Bay Leaf Digital blog.